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MRV Receives Brocade Data Center Ready Status for End-to-End Storage Networking Interoperability
CHATSWORTH, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
MRV (NASDAQ: MRVC), a leading provider of products and services for out-of-band networking, optical transport, metro Ethernet, and fiber optic components, announced today that the Fiber Driver® 10 Gbps XFP-based optical module has been verified by Brocade as interoperable with Brocade-based Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure, according to the testing requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready program, an end-to-end interoperability initiative for SANs.
The Brocade Data Center Ready program offers companies a complete certification of their products in Brocade SAN fabric environments. Certification included comprehensive and rigorous testing of the MRV Fiber Driver 10Gbit/sec SAN Platform for compatibility with Brocade switches and directors in multi-vendor SAN environments.
"With both of our key optical transport platforms now offering industry interoperable SAN back up links, customers have the flexibility of choosing either CWDM or DWDM backbones," said Noam Lotan, CEO of MRV Communications. "By proving interoperability between MRV's Fiber Driver product line and Brocade's SAN switches, our customers can be assured that MRV's products can be deployed immediately and seamlessly in a multi-vendor network."
The Fiber Driver 10Gbps media modules combine ultra high-speed protocol support with the flexibility of XFP transceivers that support 10Gbps Fibre Channel along with SONET OC-192, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and G.709. MRV's Fiber Driver product line is an innovative optical multiservice platform that provides differentiated services including fiber grooming (Media conversion, Distance extension and Signal repeating), converter-based service demarcation, advanced CWDM and DWDM solutions and digital video distribution. The Fiber Driver platform can act as a media converter, a repeater or a WDM transponder with a simple change-out of hot-swappable multi-functional modules. Despite its compact 3RU size, it can be configured for 44 sub-3Gbps and 22 1/2/4 Gbps or 10Gbps wavelengths in its energy efficient chassis. The Fiber Driver provides a wide range of optical transport solutions to enterprise, campus and metro networks with distances of 80-100km.
"We are pleased that MRV has successfully completed the Brocade Data Center Ready testing with Brocade switches and directors in multi-vendor SAN environments," said Ben Taft, senior director of Strategic Alliances at Brocade. "Storage area networks are being deployed worldwide at a rapid rate as a scalable, high-performance networking foundation for storage environments. The Brocade Data Center Ready program is an example of our continued commitment to delivering end-to-end interoperability to customers."
About the Brocade Data Center Ready Program
The Brocade Data Center Ready program is a comprehensive testing and configuration initiative designed to foster end-to-end SAN interoperability. As part of the program, testing is conducted in SAN configurations that include a heterogeneous mix of servers, storage systems, Brocade switches, SAN management and enterprise applications, and other SAN technologies. Brocade has created an interoperability lab featuring a heterogeneous SAN fabric, in which the company tests and validates partner equipment in specific configurations. Vendors receive Brocade Data Center Ready qualification after completing tests to confirm that vendors' products meet interoperability guidelines. For more information, visit http://www.brocade.com/partnerships/index.page.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. ("MRV") is a leading provider of network equipment and services, and optical components. MRV's networking business provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular communication. MRV's optical components business provides optical communications components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises applications, through its wholly owned subsidiary SourcePhotonics, Inc. MRV markets and sells its products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network system design, integration and distribution services that include products manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and manufactured products. Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol MRVC. For more information about MRV and its products, please call (818) 773-0900 or visit our websites at www.mrv.com and www.sourcephotonics.com.
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